Sir Walter RaleighMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1904 - 292 pages |
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... preparing at Corunna , and a favourable opportunity for action presented itself when Wynter , short of provisions , with ships too foul to hold the sea , withdrew to England , believing the insurrection crushed . Eight hundred Spaniards ...
... preparing at Corunna , and a favourable opportunity for action presented itself when Wynter , short of provisions , with ships too foul to hold the sea , withdrew to England , believing the insurrection crushed . Eight hundred Spaniards ...
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... prepared for a nocturnal ride . It was a wild dark night and the road lay through a dangerous country , admirably suited for surprises and ambuscades . The presence of the town - guard from Bally had , however , perhaps become known to ...
... prepared for a nocturnal ride . It was a wild dark night and the road lay through a dangerous country , admirably suited for surprises and ambuscades . The presence of the town - guard from Bally had , however , perhaps become known to ...
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... prepared for him as Governor of Virginia , and bearing the date of 1584 , which has lately been presented to the British Museum , he is still described as Miles , not as Eques . the regulation of the mining industry in the two counties.
... prepared for him as Governor of Virginia , and bearing the date of 1584 , which has lately been presented to the British Museum , he is still described as Miles , not as Eques . the regulation of the mining industry in the two counties.
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... prepared them for great enterprises , and when at length opportunity came they embraced it with an eager zest . seas . Sir Humphrey , the second of the three Gilbert sons , whose career in many respects anticipates that of his ...
... prepared them for great enterprises , and when at length opportunity came they embraced it with an eager zest . seas . Sir Humphrey , the second of the three Gilbert sons , whose career in many respects anticipates that of his ...
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... to renounce his intention of sail- ing in person . In her endeavour to deter Sir Humphrey also from the project , for which he had so long been preparing and in which he had embarked a great portion of his fortunes , it is probable that ...
... to renounce his intention of sail- ing in person . In her endeavour to deter Sir Humphrey also from the project , for which he had so long been preparing and in which he had embarked a great portion of his fortunes , it is probable that ...
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Page 292 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 292 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 232 - You shall receive, my dear wife, my last words, in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not, with my...
Page 85 - Moncado, with the galleys of which he was captain; and from Calais, driven with squibs from their anchors, were chased out of the sight of England round about Scotland and Ireland; where, for the sympathy of their religion, hoping to find succour and assistance, a great part of them were crushed against the rocks...
Page 85 - ... that landed, being very many in number, were notwithstanding broken, slain and taken, and so sent from village to village, coupled in halters to be shipped into England, where her Majesty, of her princely and invincible disposition disdaining to put them to death, and scorning either to retain or entertain them, they were all sent back again to their countries, to witness and recount the worthy achievements of their invincible and dreadful navy, of which the number of soldiers, the fearful burthen...
Page 233 - ... for me, which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Page 59 - Give me leave, therefore, without offence, always to live and die in this mind: that he is not worthy to live at all that, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's service and his own honour, seeing that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue immortal, wherefore in this behalf mutare vel timere sperno.
Page 123 - ... without bush or stubble, all fair green grass, the ground of hard sand easy to march on, either for horse or foot, the deer crossing in every path, the birds towards...